net: ravb: avoid dereferencing an invalid PTP clock
Priority LOW 33Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ravb: avoid dereferencing an invalid PTP clock The PTP clock is unavailable before the first open, so querying its index can dereference a NULL pointer. Registration failures can also leave an error pointer in priv->ptp.clock. Cache the PHC index separately and report -1 while no clock is registered. Normalize registration errors to NULL and preserve the static timestamping capabilities.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.00169 6th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Linux (Linux): 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109 +3
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80992
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j5jh-54qw-942f
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29ffd972531f8e6e0edf4ea3496190acff9fc9c2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf3308416a2be85dcc9965b614a745b40beeff14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc710f89a644e030a7ca15343176ca862fd61b9d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d4d06d6e2b501cb8e30ed3b1924c470358e8052
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0aaa53936419cf0c19c670387fc6d431e042a1b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f77af0aaf277413ff32f6ff8c2c4282bd64c897
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Sources
- CVE-2026-80992 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-80992 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-j5jh-54qw-942f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-80992 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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